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President Ronald Reagan once said: “The nine most dangerous words in the English language are, I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” If you know me at all you know that I have a deep, and growing, distrust of our government. There seems to be no end to its insatiable need for money, control, and power. This monster continues to assume control over parts of our lives that the Constitution specifically forbids it from entering. The small minority of Progressives/Socialists (PS) continue to drag the government, and therefore the governed, into its suicidal death grip. Until now they have been patient. They were content to slowly engulf whole segments of an unaware, or apathetic, society. That is changing. They continue to promise a utopian future that the weak minded have happily approved. The PSs have recently seen an unexpected groundswell of Americans rising to fight back for our freedom and our liberty. (We have a history of that you know). There is currently a confluence of events forcing them to speed up heir agenda.

Our federal government wants to grow in order to gain more control and power. Many of you may not be old enough to remember the 1950s movie: The Blob. It starred Steve McQueen in his first full length motion picture leading role. The tag line for the movie said: “An alien life form consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.” (The blob was finally stopped by freezing it and throwing it in the ocean. Just sayin). If you remove the word alien, which our speech police tell us is a naughty word, it describes exactly what is going on with our government. D.C.’s answer to every problem is more money. Do you know that tax paying Americans, you and I, sent four times more of our earnings in the form of tax dollars to D.C. in 2015 than we did in 1985? We quadrupled D.C.’s revenue in 30 years. Yet we still ran a deficit in 2015, and every year since. President Obama set an all time record for spending during his 8 years in office. He nearly doubled the total national debt accrued by every previous President in our history. But it turns out he was a piker. This year, if the Build Back Better Act proposed by President Biden is passed, our government will approve spending more money this year than Obama did in 8!!

Gullible Americans will be comforted in the knowledge that none of this outrageous spending is going to cost us anything. Our President tells us that this $1.75-$4 trillion bill will not add one single penny to the national debt. He tells us that no American, earning under $400,000 a year, will pay a single penny in additional taxes. The PSs have apparently found a mystical fairy who has agreed to spread magical pixie dust money all over America. Even the PSs know this is wishful thinking. Those who know who always pay for these pie in the sky programs know it is a lie. They say they will raise taxes on the wealthy and on corporations to pay for the bill. That is preposterous on its face. Forget what tax rate you slap on the wealthiest Americans. They’ll figure out how to use loopholes to avoid paying extra. (Democrats included in the bill an increase in the amount of state and local taxes the richest Americans can deduct from their federal taxes). If the government confiscated 100% of the assets of the 10 richest Americans that would still fall short of paying for the bill. This is absurd. And corporate taxes are a joke as well. Corporations are NOT tax payers, they are tax collectors. When the government raises taxes on corporations they do one of 3 things. 1. They reduce or cancel pay raises to employees, or they reduce or cancel matching funds to employee 401(k)s. 2. They reduce or eliminate dividends paid to stockholders. 3. Finally they raise prices. None of these three options show up as tax increases, but it is the little guy that pays. When asked about option 3 in a news briefing, White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki said: “President Joe Biden believes people know that corporations do not need to raise the cost of goods in order to pay more taxes and pay more of their fair share.” Psaki must have majored in political fiction. She clearly went nowhere near economics. The problem facing American businesses is that nobody in the Biden administration has ever signed the FRONT of a paycheck. They have only signed the back. Americans are getting tired of being taxed to death. They are tired of being lied to about what they will have to pay.

Government’s thirst for control has been on full display for the last 18 months. Where education is concerned it has been going on for decades. We have watched as our children fall farther down the global competitive ladder every year. We need more money says the bureaucrats. We need more money says the leaches running the teacher’s unions. That is complete nonsense. We already pay the most, or second most, per capita of all of the countries in the world on education. Money is not the issue. How we use the money is. Schools receive a little less than 10% of their total funding from the federal government. Yet it decides what curricula is used. We spend too little time on reading, writing, arithmetic, science, history, and civics. Many/most schools have dropped shop and home economics classes altogether. All of the above mentioned classes gave way to sex education, gender and race studies, Critical Race Theory (CRT), and faux history such as the 1619 Project, forced by D.C. Our children are in front of their teachers fewer days than nearly all of our global competitors. I wonder if that might be a factor?

The most pernicious example of governmental control is the terrible loss of freedom and liberty we have endured during the COVID pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of businesses across the nation have been forced to close, many of them forever. D.C. just sees businesses. People know they represent millions of friends who have lost everything. The PSs see millions of Americans who will no longer be able to take care of themselves. These are people who will forever be beholding to the government for the necessities of life. Our children have lost the better part of 2 years away from their teachers and classmates. People have been denied treatments for sometimes life threatening diseases. We were forced to wear masks, social distance, and continue to get a growing number of vaccinations. Perhaps worst of all, we were forced to allow our loved ones to die alone in nursing homes and hospitals. Many of them incapable of understanding why their family wasn’t visiting.

In March of 2020 the dialog was “15 days to flatten the curve.” Over a year and a half later the mantra is now get vaccinated or lose your job! They said “we will follow the science.” That is a complete lie. If they were following the science they wouldn’t be firing people who were COVID survivors. The science says that natural immunity is often better than vaccine immunity. They punished doctors who had hundreds of proven instances of treating COVID patients successfully with alternative scenarios. If they were truly dedicated to following the science why would they be firing Americans for not being vaccinated while allowing tens of thousands of illegals to enter our country monthly without knowing their vaccination status? Why would they transport them all over the country? This has nothing to do with the virus, or with following the science. This entire exercise has been to gain control. The PSs sees millions of additional Americans who will no longer be able to take care of their own needs. For Socialism to take hold it needs to constantly increase the number of helpless people. It is all about control.

Money plus control equals power. Neither party looks at issues through the lens of what is good for the country. The first question seems to be what is good for my party? What can we do to gain more power for the party? Over 80% of Americans want the southern border closed. Democrats see illegals as potential votes. Democrats are in control so they ignore the border crisis. Over 75% of Americans want picture IDs for voting. Democrats insist voter IDs are racist. Democrats are in control, so they ignore us. Political parties no longer view us as citizens. They see us as subjects, a kind of chattel. But our voices are getting louder.

As I mentioned above, there is a confluence of events that make the PSs nervous. They thought the pandemic would frighten the daylights out of Americans. They hoped our fear would send us scurrying to “big brother” for protection. They did everything they could to make that happen. The free press, social media, and big corporations, all aligned with government in an effort to frighten, bully, and silence, the freest people in the world. And sadly it worked with a large number of us. COVID, as it turned out, was the catalyst we citizens needed to begin pushing back. With parents forced to stay home, and children taking classes at home, parents began seeing some of the rot their children were being forced to endure. Thousands of us began showing up at school board meetings and town halls. We wanted answers for the edicts laid down by tyrants. The National School Board Association (NSBA) responded to our queries by calling us domestic terrorists. They asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to look into the parents who dared question their authority. The DOJ dutifully put the FBI on full alert all across the country. The DOJ has not rescinded that alert. Typically this form of bullying would have been enough to quiet the masses. This time the American people had had enough. We forced state legislatures to pass laws outlawing CRT. We started recall petitions against those board members who lied to us about the existence of CRT in our schools. We are running new candidates for school boards all over the country. We elected people who represent our wishes, not party hacks. In New Jersey, a deep blue state, a truck driver with no political experience defeated an incumbent with 20 years in the state Senate, 12 as its President. These events have put the PSs on their heels, as none of this was supposed to happen. I pray this is but the beginning of bigger things to come. I want to thank those who got off their behinds and said no more. It may turn out they saved our Republic. You are the modern day version of Paul Revere.

I hope you found this post interesting and informative. If you did please tell your friends about it. Thank you, Bob